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Her face wore a troubled expression: she walked slowly and looked about at the gravestones. Putnam stopped talking abruptly, but presently said, "You have not asked me for your fuchsias." She stood still and held out her hand for them. "I thought you might be meaning to let me keep them," said Putnam.
In India the "kaddam rassul," or supposed impression of Mohammed's foot in clay, which is kept moist, and enclosed in a sort of cage, is not unfrequently placed at the head of the gravestones of the followers of Islam. On the summit of a mountain one hundred and thirty-six miles south of Bhagalpur is one of the principal places of Jain worship in India.
And he pointed to a shapeless heap of turf and gravestones and churchyard mould against the base of the tower. "Where is Mr Westray?" Lord Blandamer said. "Ask him to speak to me for a minute." He looked round about for the architect; he wondered now that he had not seen him among the crowd. The people standing near had listened to Lord Blandamer's words.
It brought tears of shame into Beaton's eyes the fine, smouldering, floating eyes that many ladies admired, under the thick bang and he said to himself that if he were half a man he would go home and go to work cutting gravestones in his father's shop.
A savage expresses his mind with all the rest of his face; he smiles and grins and pouts and frowns, but his ears stand like gravestones with the inscriptions effaced. How different is the case when you turn from man to the "irrational" animals!
Among other treasures it possesses a painting of the Conversion of St. Paul by Camuccini, the choir by Carlo Maderno, and a fine St. Benedict by Ramaldi. An adjoining cloister, belonging to the Benedictine Convent, dates from the thirteenth century. It rests on fluted and twisted columns, and contains in its library a small collection of Christian gravestones from A.D. 355.
Many instances, however, have occurred in later years of desecration by pasturing cattle in the churchyards, and offences of this nature have been so recent that the practice cannot be said with confidence to have even now entirely ceased. But we return to the gravestones. From one cause or another it is pretty certain that for every old gravestone now to be seen twenty or more have disappeared.
He was staggered again, by observing no traces of footsteps in the snow on which the goblins had played at leap-frog with the gravestones, but he speedily accounted for this circumstance when he remembered that, being spirits, they would leave no visible impression behind them.
In Brescia there is a censorship for gravestones; and in Rome a strict watch is kept over the English burying-ground, lest any one should write a verse of Scripture above a heretic's grave. The expression of thought is more dreaded than brigandage. Those who aspire to the learned professions go to the Collegio Romano.
Osbourne tells me they are to be reckoned by the dozen; and as the roads have been made long posterior to their erection, perhaps to their desertion, and must simply be regarded as lines drawn at random through the bush, the forest on either hand must be equally filled with these survivals: the gravestones of whole families.
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